Love + Wisdom = Buddha

Awaken

Zen teacher Norman Fischer looks at the famed Heart Sutra and explains why compassion and emptiness go hand in hand…

Shamans Of The Andes And Prophecies

Awaken

by Dr. Alberto Villoldo: Shamans in the Andes, the Q’ero, read the signs of destiny and foretold the end of time and the dawn of a millennium of light…

Rumi: Say I Am You

A Sufi poem by Rumi written elegantly to inspire and to go beyond our limitations towards the Divine.

In Rumi’s Footsteps: Konya, Turkey

by Brad Gooch: Arriving in Konya, a medium-sized city in Turkey’s Central Anatolian heartland, about an hour’s flight southeast of Istanbul, my brief mumble to the cab driver—“Hotel Rumi”—was direction enough.

A Rumi of One’s Own

by Rachel Aviv: Several years ago Kabir Helminski, a sheikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufism, received a call from Madonna’s producer, who wanted to hire his troupe of whirling dervishes for a music video inspired by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi.

Swami Sivananda Quotes

Inspiring words from Swami Sivananda. Find your center, realise your immortal self here and now and abide as that for ever. Your real self is awareness.

Remembering Swami Sivananda

by Swami Sivananda: This is the blessed occasion of the coming of Sri Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.